Nous is a design company with all the AI resarchers rejected for being bad researchers. That's a hill I'll die on.
TBF, I've heard the team at xai called "bunch of amateurs" by people who've previously worked (with them) at big labs. For a bunch of amateurs, they've caught up with SotA just fine.
* Rejected by whom?
* By what definition of bad?
* You’ll die on a hill for what reason?